As someone who was unfamiliar with the Guardians of the Galaxy characters & storylines, I must say that the more I hear about this project the more excited I become to see it on the big screen. I thought that this would be a good place to have a dialogue about the movie without resurrecting a thread that was almost a year old.

So what does everyone think about this project? I think it will be extremely interesting to see how it ties into the current MCU - there's already been talk that it will have some kind of tie-in to The Avengers 2. Where do you think we'll see the project go?

And finally, I wanted to speak on the cast which is already shaping up nicely. We've already got the following characters casted (from IMDB):